compiler/posixc/gcvt.c

   1 /*
   2     Copyright © 1995-2013, The AROS Development Team. All rights reserved.
   3     $Id$
   4
   5     POSIX.1-2001 function gcvt().
   6     Function is deprecated and removed from POSIX.1-2008
   7 */
   8
   9 #include <stdio.h>
  10
  11 /*****************************************************************************
  12
  13     NAME */
  14 #include <stdlib.h>
  15
  16         char * gcvt (
  17
  18 /*  SYNOPSIS */
  19         double    number,
  20         int       ndigit,
  21         char    * buf
  22         )
  23
  24 /*  FUNCTION
  25         Converts a number to a minimal length NULL terminated ASCII string.
  26         It produces ndigit significant digits in either printf F format or
  27         E format.
  28
  29     INPUTS
  30         number  - The number to convert.
  31         ndigits - The number of significan digits that the string has to have.
  32         buf     - The buffer that will contain the result string.
  33
  34     RESULT
  35         The address of the string pointed to by buf.
  36
  37     NOTES
  38         This function is deprecated and not present anymore in POSIX.1-2008.
  39         This function should not be used in new code and old code should
  40         be fixed to remove usage.
  41         This function is part of libposixc.a and may be removed in the future.
  42
  43     EXAMPLE
  44
  45     BUGS
  46
  47     SEE ALSO
  48         stdc.library/sprintf()
  49
  50     INTERNALS
  51
  52 ******************************************************************************/
  53 {
  54     sprintf (buf, "%.*G", ndigit, number);
  55
  56     return buf;
  57 } /* sprintf */
  58